Die Expeditionen zur Rettung von Schröder-Stranz und seinen Begleitern.

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Book Description
First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 101; coloured frontis., 20 b&w photo. plates, one folding map; previous owner’s inscription to title-page, else very good in original boards, expertly restored to spine.
Dealer Notes
AB 16713. Herbert Schröder-Stranz’s Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1912 was undertaken in preparation for a proposed crossing of the Northeast Passage by ship. The fifteen-man expedition included Alfred Ritscher - later to lead the Schwabenland expedition to the Antarctic - and Christopher Rave, an artist. Schröder-Stranz set out by sledge with three companions, and tasked those left on the ship with laying depots. The sledge part was not seen again, and when the ship was beached in Sorgfjorden the remaining crew separated, some remaining with the ship, others leaving to seek help. Ritscher reached Adventfjorden alone, from where news of the expedition went out. Two search expeditions, one under Staxrud, the other led by Wegener, attempted to reach the stricken men, the former discovering Rave and another man, Rüdiger; several other expedition members managed to reach Adventfjorden under their own steam, but in total eight men failed to return. The present rare work, an account of the two search expeditions with initial details of Schröder-Stranz’s expedition, was edited for publication by A. Miethe.
Author [Schröder-Stranz Expedition, 1912-3.] Hauptmann A. Staxrud & Dr. K. Wegener.
Date 1914
Binding Original boards
Publisher Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen)
Condition See description
Pages xiv, 101
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